mr. president barroso will give an answer. mr.nt, please start. >> in the system of law we respect the rules of law and to make analysis of the intention of people is at least on a fair. we cannot attribute to me or the commission any intention behind what is the respect of the rule of law. once again, i think we have to make a distinction between what are the obligations of the european commission or any public body regarding will fall or what is to give up some demagogic attacks to the european institutions. in fact in the commission, the institutions in general have the highest standard in terms of transparency and so i do not accept this kind of easy criticism populist demagogic will. [applause] >> [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: thank you mr. president for your answers. we've completed the first round of questions to the president of the commission of a general nature. now we should focus on one topic that is the implementation of the new treaty and the basic rights. the first speaker will be for one minute, please

mr. president barroso will give an answer. mr. president, please start. >> in the system of law we respect the rules of law and to make analysis of the intention of people is at least on a fair. we cannot attribute to me or the commission any intention behind what is the respect of the rule of law. once again, i think we have to make a distinction between what are the obligations of the european commission or any public body regarding will fall or what is to give up some demagogic attacks to the european institutions. in fact in the commission, the institutions in general have the highest standard in terms of transparency and so i do not accept this kind of easy criticism populist demagogic will. [applause] >> [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: thank you mr. president for your answers. we've completed the first round of questions to the president of the commission of a general nature. now we should focus on one topic that is the implementation of the new treaty and the basic@@@) [inaudible] for the period between 2009 to 2

mr. president barroso will give an answer. mr. president, please start. >> in the system of law we respect the rules of law and to make analysis of the intention of people is at least on a fair. we cannot attribute to me or the commission any intention behind what is the respect of the rule of law. once again i think we have to make a distinction between what are the obligations of the european commission or any public body regarding will fall or what is to give up some demagogic attacks to the european institutions. in fact in the commission, the institutions in general have the highest standard in terms of transparency and so i do not accept this kind of easy criticism populist demagogic will. [applause] >> [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: thank you mr. president for your answers. we've completed the first round of questions to the president of the commission of a general nature. now we should focus on one topic that is the implementation of the new treaty and the basic rights. the first speaker will be for one minute,

mr. barroso. the euro crisis was unleashed by incorrect figures provided by greece. i would like to know from you whether you can confirm that at no point in time before the latest budget figures were supplied by the greek government you or any officers in your commission had already been informed about the correct figures, and, secondly, can you confirm that the director general had considerable doubts as early as 2004 and 2005, which she reported in relation to the data from athens? -- which he reported? and thirdly, is it correct that the inspectors inform you that they had considerable doubts about the data from athens? >> -- is it correct that the inspectors inform you -- informed you? >> with great competence and great impartiality and great objectivity. we made the point several times, but, in fact, they put forward and regulation in the council to give powers, and this was rejected by the member states. they did not want to give the commission more powers to go in depth in the national accounts of greece. my information is that this time at least some of thos

mr. barroso said in the past before he was reelected as president of the commission.hen can we expect, this is my question to put forward a legislative proposal to solve this problem which has come into being after the court's ruling? can the commission president already today give us assurance? >> when these rulings were made public, we expressed our position very clearly. myself and then commissioner responsible for employment and social affairs making it clear that in our understanding those rulings could not put in question the fundamental rights like the right to strike, to write a trade unions, like the specificities of some mechanisms of labor relations in our countries. we are working on some proposals to address these issues. i cannot give you concrete states. i am sorry because i was not expecting this question now but as i have said before, the election of this commission by the responsible commissioner is an issue we will address shortly. >> translator: thank you chairman. i would like to ask fundamental rights, the new treaty and external action. accordin

mr. barroso, the euro crisis was unleashed by incorrect figures provided by greece. i'd like to know from you whether you can confirm that at no point in time before the latest budget figures were supplied by the greek government you or any officers in our commission had already been informed about the correct figures? and secondly, can you confirm that the directer general, mr. rad macker, had considerable doubts as early as 2004 and 2005 which he reported in relation to the data from athens? and what did you do to support the acquisition of data? and thirdly, is it correct that the inspector in eurostat informed you they had considerable doubt about athens' data? >> translator: thank you very much. >> it is precisely because we had doubts against, regarding the greek figures, namely commissionerral moon ya leading these files with great confidence and great impartiality and great objectivity that not only we made the point several times with the greek authorities, but in fact they have put forward regulation in the council to propose, to give to the eurostat audit